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Kyle Jacobs, songwriter and husband of singer Kellie Pickler, dead at 49
Kellie Pickler’s husband, Kyle Jacobs, dead by apparent suicide at age 49
Kellie Pickler’s husband, Kyle Jacobs, dead at 49 by suicide: cops
Kyle Jacobs, songwriter husband of Kellie Pickler, dead by apparent suicide at 49
Kyle Jacobs, a songwriter and the husband of former "American Idol" contestant and country music star Kellie Pickler, has died by apparent suicide.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department announced in a statement that Jacobs, 49, was found dead inside the couple's Nashville-area home Friday and that his death is being investigated as an apparent suicide

According to the police's statement, Pickler, 36, told police she awoke shortly before the incident and called 911 when she and her personal assistant were unable to open the upstairs bedroom's door. Nashville’s Department of Emergency Communications received the 911 call at 1:21 pm.

Pickler and Jacobs wed in 2011. Together they appeared on the reality show "I Love Kellie Pickler" in 2015.
Jacobs had a hand in writing several hit songs, including Garth Brooks' 2007 hit "More Than a Memory" and Tim McGraw's 2009 song "Still." He's also written songs for Kelly Clarkson, Scotty McCreery, his wife and many others.

Kellie Pickler and Kyle Jacobs
Pickler won Season 16 of "Dancing With the Stars" while competing with her professional partner Derek Hough in 2013. In 2006, she finished in the Top 6 of Season 5 of "American Idol," launching her music career.
Jacobs and Pickler reached their 12th wedding anniversary on New Year's Day. In 2022, he honored their 11th anniversary with a heartfelt post about his wife on Instagram.
"Her mind, heart, and soul is not only comitted to our military and first responders, it is convicted to let them know that they are appreciated and loved," he wrote. "And the good news for me is…She loves me too…:)"

Pickler co-wrote the title track of her 2013 album "The Woman I Am" with Jacobs.


"Nobody knows the woman I am better than my husband," she told USA TODAY in November 2013. "There was no way I could try to be anything I'm not, because he could definitely call me on it."

Kyle Jacobs, country music songwriter and the husband of former “American Idol” contestant Kellie Pickler, 36, has died from an apparent suicide. He was 49.

Metropolitan Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron confirmed to The Post that police responded to a 911 call from the couple’s home Friday afternoon and found Jacobs dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in an upstairs bedroom/office space.

His death is being investigated as a suicide, police say.

Aaron added that Pickler reported that she woke up and could not immediately find her husband. She and her personal assistant were unable to open the door to the room where Jacobs was found, so the assistant called 911.

The Post has contacted reps for Pickler for comment.
Born on June 26, 1973, Jacobs was raised in Minnesota. He co-wrote Garth Brooks’ 2007 No. 1 hit “More Than A Memory.” He also helped pen “Still” by Tim McGraw and “Dust” by the Eli Young Band.

His songs have been recorded by the likes of Pickler, George Strait, Kelly Clarkson, Thompson Square, and Jo Dee Messina, to name a few.

Pickler, meanwhile, rose to fame in 2006 on the fifth season of “American Idol,” where she placed sixth.


Her success followed a troubled childhood. She alleged to Us Weekly in 2006 that her mother handed her a kitchen knife and told her to commit suicide.

“I remember my mother and I were in the kitchen, and I said, ‘I wish God would take me away, I’d much rather be dead than live here with you.’ She took a knife out, set it on the counter, and said, ‘Here, do it then.’ I was in fourth grade. Of course, I would never have acted upon it, but it’s done a lot of emotional scarring.”

Jacobs and Pickler met through mutual songwriter friends at a Nashville bar in 2007.

“So we ended up sitting with him and his buddies, and we got lost in conversation and everybody else disappeared,” she revealed on “The Real” in 2015.

They immediately started working on music together, collaborating on several songs on Pickler’s albums, “100 Proof” in 2012, and “The Woman I Am” in 2013. He is credited on tracks such as “Mother’s Day,” “The Woman I Am” and “Bonnie and Clyde.”

“I didn’t know someone like Kyle existed,” Pickler told People in 2008 of her then-boyfriend.

“He makes me feel so good about being me. I hadn’t seen the way a relationship should be. ”I’d never seen my mom and dad in the same room except in a courthouse. When I’m going through problems and saying, ‘I need a Xanax!’ Kyle says, ‘No, baby, let me be your pill.’ It’s so comforting.”